A child psychiatrist who once headed the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry was arrested amid allegations he had molested male patients dating back to the 1960s.Dr. William Ayres, 75, was taken into custody Thursday at his San Mateo home and charged with 14 felony counts of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14. The charges involve multiple victims, but authorities declined to say how many.The arrest followed a four-year investigation.Ayres, a prominent psychiatrist who retired last year, had been honored in 2002 by the San Mateo board of supervisors with a lifetime achievement award for "his tireless effort to improve the lives of children and adolescents." He also served as president of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry from 1993 to 1995.... http://www.usatoday.com

A suicide bomber driving a truck loaded with TNT and toxic chlorine gas crashed into a police checkpoint in western Ramadi on Friday, killing at least 27 people and wounding dozens, police in the Anbar provincial capital said. In the deep south of the country, the Basra police commander said the type of roadside bomb used in an attack that killed four British soldiers on Thursday had not been seen in the region previously. Maj. Gen. Mohammed al-Moussawi's description of the deadly weapon indicated it was a feared Iranian-designed explosively formed penetrator. Two more of the bombs were discovered planted along routes heavily traveled by U.S. and British diplomats in Basra. Weeks earlier, the American military had claimed Iran was supplying Shiite militia fighters in Iraq with the powerful weapons, known as EFPs. They hurl a molten, fist-sized copper slug capable of piercing armored vehicles. ...http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/06/iraq/main2655897.shtml?source=RSSattr=World_2655897

The US has said it has found a way to transfer frozen North Korean funds in a row that has been holding up moves to shut Pyongyang's nuclear facilities. A State Department spokesman said the US was supporting the release of US$25m (£12.7m) held in a Macao bank. "We have identified a way to potentially implement fully the agreement," the spokesman said. Until it gets the money back, Pyongyang is refusing to take steps to implement a landmark deal signed in February. Under the deal, the North agreed to shut its main nuclear reactor in 60 days, which is now only eight days away. Deal 'unlikely' US negotiators left talks Beijing earlier in the day without solving the dispute. Earlier this week China's nuclear negotiator Wu Dawei said the deadline was unlikely to be met because of the funding dispute. The money was kept in the Banco Delta Asia in Macau, which has been on a US blacklist since September 2005. ...http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6533617.stm

The megachurches mushrooming in the United States are mammoth feel-good temples providing entertainment for one and all. The ministers used to deliver weekly jeremiads excoriating homosexuality, feminism and abortion, but many -- particularly younger evangelists -- are now using the pulpit to preach about Africa and the environment. What type are you? Are you a talker? A feeler? A doer? Or a thinker?" Pastor Rick asks the congregation of more than 2,000 believers who have settled into his Saddleback Worship Center in Southern California one Sunday morning in October. "Raise your hand!" The preacher pigeonholes humankind into four personality types. Every time he reels off a characteristic, hundreds of hands point skyward. Who would have guessed? Women generally are the "feelers" and men the "doers." ...http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,474999,00.html

As the spring sets in Taleban fighters in Pakistan's tribal region of Waziristan, bordering Afghanistan, are increasingly visible. This bodes ill for the coalition forces in Afghanistan. But it also highlights problems for Pakistan's government. It is faced with the prospect of the Taleban and their allies trying to consolidate their expansion eastwards inside North West Frontier Province (NWFP). They have already carved out two safe havens in NWFP. They were able to do so after signing deals to the west in the tribal districts of South Waziristan and North Waziristan with the Pakistani government in 2004-05. The deals have enabled different factions within the Taleban to start moving in significant numbers into the cities and towns of NWFP with the aim of overwhelming the local administration. This is an area that has been historically under much closer control of central government than ...http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6409089.stm

The son of ex-French President Francois Mitterrand is among 42 people who are to stand trial for their alleged involvement in sending arms to Angola. Jean-Christophe Mitterrand, who advised his father on African affairs, has been charged with bribe-taking. French prosecutors say East European arms worth nearly $800m (£405m) were supplied to the Angolan president's forces illegally during the civil war. The transfers allegedly happened in 1993-2000. The war ended in 2002. Mr Mitterrand denies any wrongdoing, as do two of his co-defendants, Jacques Attali, a former close adviser to the late President Mitterrand, and the ex-centre right Interior Minister, Charles Pasqua. The arms sales investigation has focused on two businessmen, Pierre Falcone and Arkady Gaydamak, whom prosecutors believe supplied heavy weaponry to President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos of Angola to help him fight rebel Unita forces in the civil war. They deny the accusation....http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6532751.stm